Tirreno-Adriatico

stevemarks wrote:

Sniffer wrote:

Condor Andy wrote:

Guess who I ditched to get in Viviani?

You are not alone.  I did exactly the same thing.

At least Viviani is in the points too, where was Gaviria who was my other transfer in?

Two transfers tomorrow before it wraps up

 

Snap! only used one transfer today, at least I chose Viv……

4 left for tomorrow though is a nice very unusual feeling

 

Hope you have more luck than I did on Paris – Nice.  Used my last two transfers and ended up worse than I would have done with no changes.

Condor Andy wrote:

Guess who I ditched to get in Viviani?

You are not alone.  I did exactly the same thing.

At least Viviani is in the points too, where was Gaviria who was my other transfer in?

Two transfers tomorrow before it wraps up

Gkam84 wrote:

I was disappointed not to get the win today by two points and when I looked why. It’s because the results show Alaphilippe ahead of Berhane in the KOM, which shouldn’t be right, as Berhane has won more climbs….Strange. Else I would have one more point and todays winner would have one less….haha

The KoM competition in T-A is a bit unusual. There are only 2 grades of hill, one gives 5 KoM points and the other 15 points, even though the climbs may be a similar difficulty. Berhane has won four 5 pointers, Alaphilippe won one 15 pointer and came 4th on another, scoring 5 points. So they both have 20 points but Alaphilippe has won on a higher scoring climb and as a result he is ahead of Berhane in the classification.

Personally I find the system unfair and as all the 15 point climbs are near the finish of stages it makes it almost impossible for a non-GC rider to win the jersey. This makes it worthless for riders to go for KoM points after stage 3.

Unbelievable finish for
Unbelievable finish for Lutsenko (He was in both teams for me) I thought he’d gone too early again, then crashed twice and still pulled off the sprint. Edge of your seat stuff all the way!

Condor Andy wrote:

Cheers, keeping a close eye on it myself today as well.

Very difficult to follow the Sprints and KoMs today, and the published results I have seen don’t include the individual results.

But from information on the live ticker and the increase in points from the previous stages I managed to figure out the results.

SPRINT 1 – MAESTRI, PETERS, MAS, BURGHARDT

SPRINT 2 – LUTSENKO, YATES, DUMOULIN, FUGLSANG

KoM 1 – VISCONTI, MAESTRI, POWERS, PETERS

KoM 2 – LUTSENKO, BENOOT, CLARKE, FORMOLO

KoM 3 – LUTSENKO, BRAMBILLA, FUGLSANG, ALAPHILIPPE, ROGLIC, YATES, FORMOLO

KoM 4 – LUTSENKO, YATES, ROGLIC, FUGLSANG, FORMOLO, BETTIOL, PINOT

Condor Andy wrote:

I have Bettiol in my purist, don’t know why he’s not in standard, but he is now, and Gav and Viv. Should be a simple swap for the next two stages after today, then plan for the ITT.

Scarey snap

I too have him in my purist and always meant to have him in my standard asap.

Condor Andy wrote:

Cheers Minardi, that’s where I went in the end.

Sprint 1

Traguardo volante di Monticiano vinto da 1. S. KURIYANOV (102) 2. M. MAESTRI (43) 3. A. TONELLI (46) 4. A. CATAFORD (123)

KoM 1

Berhane won it but the live feed deleted the result

KoM 2

Berhane, Schonberger, Cataford, Maestri

Sprint 2

Traguardo volante di Chiusi vinto da S. KURIYANOV (102). 2. M. MAESTRI (43)
3. A. TONELLI (46)
4. A. CATAFORD (123)

Not enough transfers to bring

Not enough transfers to bring in sprinters today so just bought in Bettiol which I meant to do yesterday and bought in Clarke instead.  only dropped 5 places which was a result yesterday as I was really unhappy with my chioces.

I am looking closely at the different approaches here guys and I am learning lots 

Thanks